Soulbeast - Power DPS

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A power DPS Soulbeast build for fractals and raids. This build brings very high burst damage and good CC, making it strong in short fights or fights with burst phases. It also provides heavy Vulnerability and can drop

to bring Ranger utility like spirits with little to no DPS loss.

Skill Bar

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Sword/Axe

Weapon Variants

Dagger/Axe

Axe/Axe

Both Dagger and Axe can replace sword mainhand with almost no changes to the rotation. Dagger is a DPS-neutral swap but Axe mainhand will result in a ~3% DPS loss in fights where you can stay in melee the whole time.

Pets

Your second pet usually won't matter, as unmerging is a significant DPS loss, but you should equip a strong CC pet in the slot (such as Juvenile Electric Wyvern) to save your group if CC is really bad.

Spirits

Spirits are unique Ranger summons that buff 10 players in a large radius around them.

In raids: As spirits can affect an entire raid squad, they are extremely powerful in raids and almost all of them provide great benefits to a raid comp.

In fractals: Spirits are weaker in fractals due to only affecting 5 players, but remain strong buffs that should be taken if possible.

provides a 5% increase to your squad's power DPS.

provides a ~5% increase to your squad's condition DPS.

provides sustained healing to 10 people in a huge radius. This keeps them from dying and sustains their

bonus.

provides an emergency resurrect that can affect up to 10 people, including yourself.

provides protection, which again keeps your squadmates from dying and sustains their

bonus.

As your raid squad will usually have a Druid - Boon Support Healer to handle spirits, you normally won't be expected to slot them. Druids are also better suited to take spirits due to

. However if you only have one Druid, or you're running an off-meta comp with no Druids, you can replace

with a spirit to free up your Druid's utility slots and support your team. The party buff provided to your team will outweigh the personal DPS loss.

Due to the decreasing popularity of Druids in fractals, it's very possible that you will be the only Ranger in a fractal party. In this case you should definitely take

over

.

Other Skill Variants

Utility Skills

- better burst damage than

in very short damage windows. This skill scales well with power buffs making it great on Keep Construct, Deimos, and Conjured Amalgamate.

Storm Spirit

1

20

Storm Spirit

Spirit. Summon a storm spirit that grants nearby allies a chance to apply vulnerability when attacking.

Specializations

Variants

if not running

, which will also help round out boon uptimes.

is worth running if there are multiple power DPS in your party/subgroup. This is a personal DPS loss but a party DPS increase. Always take it regardless on Keep Construct, Deimos, Conjured Amalgamate, and Qadim.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

on Keep Construct.

on Keep Construct.

in fractals, Slothasor, or Samarog (run full Berserker's stats).

and Major Sigil of the Night on night time encounters.

Slaying sigils if applicable.

Consumables

Food

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Nourishment (1 h):

+100 Power+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

Alternatively, feel free to use

Plate of Truffle Steak

Plate of Truffle Steak

Nourishment (30m):

+100 power+70 precision+10% Experience from kills

Consumable

and full Berserker set on all equipment for a minor DPS loss and cheaper food.

Utility

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (1 h):

Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

or slaying potions

Usage

The logic behind this rotation is to use your high burst damage skills

's cooldown will desync very slightly over time, use it as soon as it comes off cooldown and try to time it with your Worldly Impact/axe rotation.

Use

off cooldown.

gives an Attack of Opportunity on the next attack, try not to waste it. It has a 4 second cooldown, so with the above, if Sic Em is desynced and has a greater than 4s cooldown, do not hesitate to use it.

If you are playing one of the non-sword mainhand weapons, you should simply replace sword auto-attacks with the auto-attacks of your chosen mainhand weapon.

It can do a ridiculous amount of burst damage with a simple rotation very hard to mess up and the option to bring spirits or replace a Druid in really good Fractal groups. Earnestly one of the best builds right now. After many years, a form of Power Ranger is back.